Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

Eric Hoffer

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Ellen DeGeneres

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Peter Matthiessen

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotation confesses inferiority.

Emma Goldman

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Lord Chesterfield

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

John C. Calhoun

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Carl Jung

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Steven Wright

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

Vanna Bonta

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Sophie Swetchine

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

Noel Coward

Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

Philip Wylie

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

George Bernard Shaw

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Eric Clapton

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

George Herbert

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Jean de La Fontaine

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

Honore de Balzac

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.